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As a fledgling goth coming of age in Manchester, fellow native Mat Thorpe appeared more as a monolith than a cornerstone in the city’s scene. His presence behind the decks

There was a time when the tabloids were the villains of the music industry’s moral theatre. Red-top journalists camped outside flats, shouted questions through car windows, and plastered front pages

Oxfordshire-based independent singer-songwriter Dolly Mavies reopened the philosophical inquiry into free will with her latest single, Truman. Drawing on the existential unease woven through The Truman Show, the track widens

Kacey Langley pulled absolutely no punches in her latest single, My Exes Left Me on the Rocks, augmenting country into a pop earworm that hits with the same visceral, sticky-sweet

The innocence of youth and how easy joy used to be to conjure sits at the centre of Zarouhi’s latest single, Stolen Joy. The magnetically profound singer-songwriter channels that fragile

If any new artist deserves to reign alongside revered indie icons in the vein of Lorde, London Grammar, Tom Odell and Lucy Dacus, it’s Maisy Grace. On her latest single,

Luusif nestled into the dream house genre with Walking on a Dream, a hit of retrofuturism that places the UK-based producer squarely in the lane of forward-thinking electronica. Already racking

The spectral presence of indie post-punk haunts melodic cascades of post-rock in the latest single, Weight of Guilt by the independent Lisbon-based multi-instrumentalist and composer, Days of Alexander. From the

Averlie explored a parallel pop universe with If You Never Left, a feverishly artful single lifted from her EP, Heart Shapes. The track imagines a reality where she remained tethered to

Take the swagger of Pavement, the kaleidoscopes of polyphonia associated with Grandaddy, the raucously raw guitars of proto-punk, and drift in the postmodernist conviction of post-punk, and you are left